![]() “Most drank soft drinks and smuggled-in beers, smoked marijuana cigarettes and relaxed on sleeping bags and blankets,” Bill Boyarsky wrote in the Los Angeles Times. Some 800 portable restrooms were set up and concessionaires sold $1 hot dogs and burritos. Sky divers, aerial stunts and skateboard exhibitions entertained people between sets. Heart, the female-led act, did “Barracuda” and “Crazy on You,” Foreigner its temperature-sensitive hits “Cold as Ice” and “Hot Blooded,” and Santana “Black Magic Woman” and “Evil Ways.” French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre, who was not on the concert posters, evidently performed at some point, as his song “Oxygène Part V” is on the highlights album. Out there” - he gestured toward the distance - “you don’t know what’s going on.” ![]() Dave Mason performed “We Just Disagree” and told the Daily Report of his 45-minute set: “All you’re doing is playing in front of the first thousand people. Many camped overnight waiting for the gates to open at the speedway, located west of today’s Ontario Mills mall. Performers stayed in Beverly Hills or in Ontario, where their motel marquee read “Welcome Chiefs of Police Assn” as a ruse to throw off rock fans.īob Welch opened the festival at 9:30 a.m., joined for a few songs by Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood. People drove or hitchhiked to Ontario from around California and other states. Klatch Coffee, still family-owned, marks 30 years in Rancho Cucamonga Some 168,000 tickets were sold and attendance was 200,000. Its performers were Rare Earth, Earth Wind and Fire, the Eagles (with Jackson Browne sitting in for Bernie Leadon), Seals and Crofts, Black Oak Arkansas, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. The first California Jam, April 6, 1974, also at the speedway, seems more fondly remembered. If you think those prices are unbelievable today for an all-day event, how about this: Parking was free. Tickets were $12.50 in advance or $17 at the gate. On the bill were Aerosmith, Foreigner, Heart, Santana, Mahogany Rush, Dave Mason, Rubicon, Bob Welch and Ted Nugent. The Report ran a photo of shirtless, bearded and beaming fan Mike Mathis of Whittier with this caption: “As he stood in an area where people were separated by only a few inches, Mathis swayed, shook his head, waved his hands and bent his knees in time to the music - because he didn’t have room to move his feet.” Definitely it was not a place for misanthropes, germaphobes or claustrophobes.
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